{"id":104671,"date":"2017-05-31T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T07:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=104671"},"modified":"2025-03-06T03:42:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T08:42:43","slug":"panda-mom-cub-healthy-despite-abuse-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/31\/panda-mom-cub-healthy-despite-abuse-accusations\/","title":{"rendered":"Panda Mom, Cub healthy despite abuse accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_104724\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104724\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1002AB03-MeiXiang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104724\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1002AB03-MeiXiang.jpg\" alt=\"Mei Xiang. (Photo by Rob Page III - Own work, CC BY 3.0.)\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1002AB03-MeiXiang.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1002AB03-MeiXiang-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1002AB03-MeiXiang-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mei Xiang. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=9389648\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Page III &#8211; Own work, CC BY 3.0.<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MOSCOW &#8212; Chinese and US panda authorities have confirmed that two pandas at a US zoo are in good health following accusations on social media that the mother and cub were being starved and abused.<\/p>\n<p>Meixiang and 2-year-old Beibei, pandas living at the National Zoological Park in Washington DC, are in perfect health, a zoo employee media on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Panda experts in Sichuan Province previously refuted the claims, explaining Meixiang was exhibiting normal behavior.<\/p>\n<p>The responses counter accusations from Chinese social media users of abuse after previous livestream videos showed mother Meixiang, 19, scratching the walls of her habitat and wailing.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy provigil online <a href=\"https:\/\/dcsmentalhealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/provigil.html\">https:\/\/dcsmentalhealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/provigil.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Other clips from Friday show Meixiang scavenging for bits of bamboo to eat, sparking outrage online and accusations the panda was starved.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy voltaren online <a href=\"https:\/\/dcsmentalhealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/voltaren.html\">https:\/\/dcsmentalhealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/voltaren.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Weibo hashtag &#8220;pandas in the US abused&#8221; garnered more than 54.6 million views as of press time.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy mounjaro online <a href=\"https:\/\/dcsmentalhealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/mounjaro.html\">https:\/\/dcsmentalhealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/mounjaro.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>However, in a Weibo post on Saturday, the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda explained Meixiang was menstruating, which is marked by a reduction in appetite.<\/p>\n<p>A livestream from the zoo on Monday showed mother and son playing happily as a crowd of visitors looked on, the paper said. (Sputnik)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW &#8212; Chinese and US panda authorities have confirmed that two pandas at a US zoo are in good health &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":104724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287350,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104671\/revisions\/287350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}